Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-04-22
NEWS nE THE DAY.

Secretary Whitney gave handsome DIN
ner party to Secretary Fairchild yesterday,
but was unable to be present himself.
The President yesterday appointed Ed.
ward F. Bingham, of Ohio, chief judge OF
the District Supreme Court to succeed The
late Judge Cartier.
The war in New York against oleomarga-
rine dealers was continued yesterday:
Nearly dozen more grocers we're srraigned
and fined 500 each.
The report that the President intends to
call an extra session of Congress early next
fall has been revived, but it is said no deli
mite conclusion has been reached.
A dark horse has entered the Senatorial
race in the Florida democratic caucus in the
person OF Samuel Pasco. On the eighth bal
lot in the caucus last night the vote stood :
Perry. 81 Boxham, 81 Pasco, % 1t re-
quires 81 10 nominate.
Among the passengers on the steamer
City of Sydney from China aud Japan,
which arrived at San Francisco yesterday,
were Prince Frederick Leopold, OF Prussia,
nephew OF Emperor William, OF Germany,
and Prince Louis EsterhaZy, of Austria,
with their suites. They are making tour
Of the world.
A private letter from the wife of Rev. DIR.
]. G. Armstrong states that the recently
published statement to the effect that he
and his wife were preparing to join The
Catholic Church is untrue. Though DIR.
Armstrong has Withdrawn from the minis
try of the Episcopal denomination, he still
considers himself member of that denomi-
nation.
A two months old child of Ambrose Sim
| OF Manboninir
| Lancaster county, Pa, was yesterday at.
tackled by q rat and perhaps fatally injured
The animal forced its way into the child 3
mouth, sitting its cries, and ate away the
flesh from the roof of the mouth and the
lower jaw. The child is in critical condi-
ton, but the physicians express hopes OF its
final recovery.
The South Carolina Supreme Court has
rendered decision which will cause great
financial commotion in that State and an
endless number of ltigations. 1t is to the
effect that married woman cannot mort
gage her separate estate for the debt of her
husband or any other person. The practice
of having wiies separate estate mortgaged
TO secure her husbands debts has been very
prevalent in South Carolina.
Mr.. John A. Roche who succeeds Mr.
Carter Harrison as mayor OF Chicago, in his
inaugural address, alluding to the working
men, reminds them that the city Of Chicago
was the work OF their hands, and that arbi-
tration is better way of settling disputes
than strikes or boycotts, and that for the
men who, under the guse of socialism OF
anarchy geek to undermine liberty and law
and the blessings of free government, Amer
lea is not the soil for the growth of their un-
American doctrines.
At the regular meeting of Hiram Lodge
at New Haven, Conn, last night, the off
GERS recently deposed by the Grand Lodge
occupied their chairs. Resolutions were
unanimously adopted refusing to recognize
The claim of the Grand Lodge that any
member of Hiram had lost his Masonic
standing, and announcing that the lodge
would continue to maintain the principles
of Masonry pure and undefled under the
charter granted it 1877 years ago.